Abroad, page 2

Abroad, page 2 by Various Authors

41 " The Pony Tramway 42 " The Swans 43 " A Flower Stall 44 " A Day at Versailles 45 " La Fontaine des Innocents 47 " The Markets 49 " The Luxembourg Gardens 51 " The Merry-go-round 52 The Night Journey to Calais 53 CALAIS: The Water-Gate 54 DOVER: Homeward Bound 55 "Bon Retour" 56

THE VERSES ARE BY VARIOUS WRITERS

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My readers, would you like to go _abroad_, for just an hour or so, With little friends of different ages? Look at them in these pictured pages--
Brothers and sisters you can see,--all children of one family. Their father, too, you here will find, and good Miss Earle, their teacher kind.
Three years ago their Mother died, and ever since has Father tried To give his children in the Spring some tour, or treat, or pleasant thing.
Said he, last Easter, "I propose, for Nellie, Dennis, Mabel, Rose, A trip abroad--to go with me to Paris and through Normandy." Then all exclaimed, "Oh! glorious!"--"But may not Bertie go with us?--" Said Rose--"We can't leave _him_ at home." Then Father said he too should come.
Turn to the Frontispiece and see the children packing busily. The next page shows them in the station at Charing Cross. Their great elation
Is written plainly on their faces.--Bell rings--"Time's up--Come, take your places!"

The "Folkestone Express" sped on like a dream,
And there lay the steamer fast getting up steam.

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Then at the Folkestone harbour, down they go
Across the gangway to the boat below;
Mabel and Rose just crossing you can see,
Each holding her new doll most carefully.

Nellie, Miss Earle, and Bertie too appear,
Whilst De

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